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Olympic Judo
The Judo competition at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics will be held form August 9 to August 15 at the Beijing Science and Technology University Gymnasium.
Judo is competed in by both men and women at the Olympics. 366 athletes directly quialify and 20 spots are invitational places filled from a Tripartite Commission making up a total of 386 athletes, 217 men and 147 women, with 22 places not yet allocated by gender.Events
Men:
-60 kg
60-66 kg
66-73 kg
73-81 kg
81-90 kg
90-100 kg
+100 kg
Women:
-48 kg
48-52 kg
52-57 kg
57-63 kg
63-70 kg
70-78 kg
+78 kg
EDINBURGH’S Sam Ingram is preparing for a winter of change and believes returning to judo’s Japanese heritage could see him finally top the podium in 2010.
The 24-year-old was the only British judoka to return home from the Paralympics last summer with a medal after scooping bronze via the repechage on debut in the 90kg category.
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- Olympic judo star convicted for being part of a £50million drug gang (search.msn.com)
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I have three children that go to SFJI. I think its been around since the late 50's. What an incredible place. It's a non profit and every instructor is a volunteer. Most of the instructors have been…
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Yang Xiuli from China outscored Louette Lucie from France to win the women's 78kg category gold medal at the World Judo Grand Prix here on Sunday, as her teammate Qin Qian claimed the over 78kg class championship. Yang Xiuli, who defeated Malzahn ...
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My family have, by tradition, been Rugby and Cricket players. At least the men have. My highschool was mainly Rugby orientated. I didn't play badly, but I didn't enjoy it. I played hockey, which was seen as an inferior sport. My father was always sup...
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Rena “Rusty” Kanokogi, a Coney Island scrapper who will always be remembered as the Mother of Woman’s Judo, has died following a prolonged bout with leukemia. She was 74.Her daughter, Jean Kanokogi, told reporters that the Brooklyn native died on Nov...
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James Waithe, who represented Barbados at the Olympics and England in the Commonwealth Games, was part of a gang who turned over around £1million-a-week from cocaine sales. Waithe, 47, owned a Bristol flat where police found a "cocaine factory ...
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Rusty Kanokogi, an American woman known as the 'mother of women's judo' for her efforts to make the sport an Olympic event, died at a New York hospital, her family said. She was 74. She had been suffering from multiple myeloma, a cancer of white blood cells, her family said.
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UNDERDOG Craig Curtis grabbed gold in the European Judo Masters Championships at Lignano, Italy. The Swindon fighter beat powerhouse Russian Igor Fominykh in the final of the men’s M3 +100kg, for competitors aged between 40 and 44. Curtis was by ...
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